By reading this book, you will learn how to build exciting home automation projects using the Raspberry Pi & the ESP8266 WiFi chip. You will learn how to use the Raspberry Pi as the hub of your home automation system, and how to connect ESP8266 devices to this hub, by building sensors, lamp controllers, and motion sensors.

If you want to build your own home automation systems wirelessly using the Arduino platform, this is the book for you. You will need to have some basic experience in Arduino and general programming languages, such as C and C++ to understand the projects in this book.

Design your own home automation systems using the Arduino platform! In this book, you will be guided through the basics of the Arduino platform, and you will learn how to use a wide range of sensors and actuators that are commonly used in home automation.

Want to use your smartphone to manage your heating, lighting, and family security? No problem, this book This book is broken down into four different sections. The first section describes Smart Homes 2.0, provides an overview of the Nest smart home ecosystem and explains the key benefits of the Nest smart home automation environment.

This book is a very concise guide on how to use the ESP8266 WiFi chip to build home automation projects. The ESP8266 is a small, low-cost and low-power WiFi chip that received a lot of interest from the DIY & makers community when it was released.